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Monday, March 29, 2010

17 of 20 members of new Medjugorje commission known (unofficial)

This post may be updated, so please check back. I have edited in a few more links since posting it earlier.

Several Croatian and BiH sources, such as Vecernji List and Sarajevo-X [google translate versions] are reporting that 17 of the 20 members of the new Medjugorje commission are known. I have provided as much information as I could understand and was able to find a little more. I did the best I could to find their country of origin, and other info. Please send corrections and I will get to them when I am home later or at lunch time.

If anyone has more information on specific people listed, especially those who are not in the Catholic hierarchy, please drop a note in the combox or email me at TeDeumBlog@gmail.com. I am specifically interested in links to pages which would contain things like a curriculum vitae, or other hard data.

Fr. Franjo Topic (Croatia - Professor of Theology - President of CLA - has been on Ecumenical Council of the Bishop's Conference of BiH, Eastern theology, ecclesiology. Also listed in link found: History of science and religion, history and teachings of Islam. Also seems to be an expert in the history of Catholics in BiH - noteworthy statistic is that the Diocese of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo), Catholics are only half of what they were before the war of 1992-1995.)

Fr. Mijo Nikić, SJ (Croatia - Professor of Psychology at the Jesuit Institute at the University of Zagreb)

Sr. Nela Veronica Gaspar (Croatia - Professor of Theology in Rijeka)

Fr. Szentmartoni Mihaly - (Serbia - Professor of Spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. You will find comments by Fr. Mihaly on mortification in an article authored by Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service. I could only find it still online at National Catholic Reporter which is typically a dissident source I prefer not to link to)

Rev. Fr. David-Maria Jaeger, O.F.M., J.C.D., is a former pastor of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Austin, Texas and served on the Tribunal for the Diocese of Austin. He is currently a member of the faculty at the Pontifical Athenaeum "Antonianum" in Rome and is a member of the Delegation of the Holy See on the Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel. Born of Jewish parents in Tel Aviv, Israel, Fr. Jaeger is the only native-born Israeli ("Sabra") ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in the world.

Please Pray!

Please pray for the commission members and the CDF which will make decisions based on their findings. Please pray also that people on all sides receive any decision out of the CDF with humility. It is not important who is right and who is wrong. What is important is truth in charity.

*4-15-2010: On Abp Amato - Updated link to read that Abp Amato signed the letter authorizing Bishop Peric to make public those sanctions in 2008. Added in link about Tuscan Bishop's memo several days ago.Te Deum Laudamus! Home

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"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."